Ann-Kristin Lieberknecht is a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, usable privacy and security, and digital literacy. She is particularly interested in the psychological and social dynamics that shape how people engage with privacy risks in everyday digital life, especially those that remain implicit or unspoken. Rather than treating privacy as a purely technical or regulatory problem, her work asks how interventions can be designed to reflect the lived realities of the people they are meant to support. To date, this work has focused on parents as proxy decision-makers for their children, uncovering the relational complexity, emotional tensions, and self-efficacy barriers that conventional approaches tend to miss. A central part of her work is translating these insights into concrete interventions and design implications that go beyond awareness-raising toward building genuine capability and confidence in families.

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